Brian Heath Davis v. Randy Gibbs, Warden, et al.
HabeasCorpus
To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confrontation and Effective Assistance violated when an expert conducts an autopsy, prepares an autopsy report, relies on the report to testify, but it is not admitted as evidence?
No question identified. : QUESTIONS PESENTED Akin to Justice Sotomayor’s Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647, 672-74 (2011) scenario; To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confrontation and Effective Assistance violated when an expert conducts an autopsy, prepares an autopsy report, relies on the report to testify, but it is not admitted as evidence? Does the reliance on found false information render the expert’s inability to determine cause and manner of death inadmissible as a basis for establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?